Thread: Number of refugees admitted in US drops by 50 percent under Trump

Number of refugees admitted in US drops by 50 percent under Trump

Published June 23, 2017
Fox News

Demonstrators march outside the Trump Building at 40 Wall St. as part of a protest against the refugee ban in New York

Demonstrators march outside the Trump Building at 40 Wall St. as part of a protest against the refugee ban in New York (Reuters)

The number of refugees who entered the U.S. during President Trump’s first three months compared to the last months of President Obama’s term was cut nearly in half, according to statistics released Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.

According to the statistics, a total of 13,000 refugees were admitted to the U.S. in the past three months, compared to 25,000 under Obama, The Los Angeles Times reported. The most popular countries of origins remained the same: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Myanmar.

Obama set the ceiling of 110,000 refugee arrivals across the U.S. President Trump cut that number to 50,000 this year. Congress has approved a budget for only 75,000 for this fiscal year. A U.S. State Department spokesman said the country is now resettling 900 refugee arrivals weekly, to remain within that budget.

Trump was praised by many supporters and criticized by others. Erol Kekic, executive director of the Immigration and Refugee Program for Church World Service, said at the time, “This program simply can’t be turned on and off like a faucet.”

Federal court rulings have blocked Trump's executive orders suspending arrivals from certain majority Muslim nations. But the lower U.S. admissions numbers have disrupted a finely tuned, federally funded process that begins with exhaustive 18-month security screenings abroad.

Trump is moving to significantly reduce the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States, even as his bid to temporarily suspend admissions is stalled in the courts.

The statistics show that the Obama administration made an effort to increase the number of refugees before Trump by 86 percent.

There are more than 63 million refugees worldwide, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...der-trump.html

I would like to see this 50,000 number dropped even further for FY 2018. Cut it in half again, to 25,000 total or better yet, drop it to ZERO.

Trump was praised by many supporters and criticized by others. Erol Kekic, executive director of the Immigration and Refugee Program for Church World Service, said at the time, “This program simply can’t be turned on and off like a faucet.”

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Defund these Churches and get them OUT of the Human Trafficking business paid for by US taxpayers! Go help them on their soil with your money!

TURN THE FAUCET OFF...NO MORE PEOPLE!

All of the Muslim refugees are nothing more than a hijra front, a part of Islam's attempt to seize global power in non-Muslim countries. Christian refugees from these countries have more legitimate claims and these are distinct minorities, well below numbers that anyone could tolerate.

Muslim fleeing warfare in Muslim countries are just the natural fallout of social strategies among Muslims that have lead to civil war. The civil war against Assad's Alawite Muslim regime in Syria is a good example. Assad and his people represent a sect within the Shi'i branch of Islam, and Sunni states, especially Saudi Arabia have funded a Sunni population explosion in Syria. Not only has this led to economic collapse due to a pathologically high population, but the attempt to seize power through demography has failed and civil is the response. Meanwhile, Syria is another game piece for the Muslim struggles to establish a caliphate and ISIS is the main player here.

It's not hard to see that those opposing Assad in the civil war there are allied with ISIS and when the US supports the rebels against Assad, then the US is supporting ISIS.

I believe you're right about that, pkskyali. Given the extremely small number of Muslims in our country, they are very well connected to very high places and have been so for a very long time. They were so well connected at the time of 9/11 that there actually more concern on the part of government that there be no back-lash against Muslims for 9/11 than there was concern over the victims. They had those powerful Muslims at the podium with the President Bush day one. That's political power, political influence, very powerful to achieve that on day one.

LA Times headline is deceptive (yes, can you believe it!)

Posted by Ann Corcoran on June 24, 2017
Here is the headline of an LA Times story yesterday designed to give an impression to lazy readers that President Trump (the meany) has drastically cut refugee admissions. He hasn’t.
Number of refugees admitted to U.S. drops by almost half

Their story begins:
The number of refugees admitted to the United States was cut by nearly half in the first three months of the Trump administration compared with the final three months of the Obama presidency, reflecting the new president’s skepticism toward immigration.
Further down, at least they try to be honest for readers willing to read more than the headline as they report what we reported ad nauseam and that is that the outgoing Obama State Department was pouring refugees in to the US at a phenomenal rate.


The data suggest that the Obama administration, as it was about to turn over power to Trump, significantly stepped up the number of refugees admitted. Arrivals in its final three months reflected an 86% year-over-year increase compared to the same period the previous year.

In Trump’s first three months, arrivals were 12% lower than for the same period in the previous year.

But, heck, 12% lower doesn’t make for a headline designed to make President Trump look bad.
Have a look at the data for the last ten years (from Wrapsnet) and see the astronomical numbers that Obama was pushing through the pipeline in the final months of his presidency.



I’m getting sick of having to show how the mainstream media skews the news on refugees. I bet you are too!
Then the LA Times story says this:
Trump has sought to limit the number of refugees to 50,000 this year. But adverse rulings in the courts could work against him.
As of today we are at 48,856, and at the present rate of arrivals we will reach 50,000 in a week to ten days. I have maintained from the outset that Trump can legally slow or outright halt the number being admitted (under the ceiling of 110,000 set by Obama) at any time and will be watching to see how the Supreme Court handles this portion of the case before them. (Decision is expected at any moment.)

Article: https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wor...ou-believe-it/